Contemporary Drawing: Aqueous Media
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
In this course, we will approach image making from a contemporary perspective (i.e., how are artists using wet drawing media today). Aqueous media is water based, wet material applied by brush, a tip, nib, or even a bath, using watercolour or inks. It also includes materials that mix easily with water, such as compressed charcoal and sanguine conté. We will explore inks, washes, and water-on-paper based materials such as watercolour and gouache as process methods, both translucent and opaque, layered and graphic. This exploratory process, between drawing and painting, will include projects that play with material investigation and class techniques, working from life (including a life model) and other imagery. Students will be encouraged to think about what interests them in the drawing / painting process.
Note: Students should have some experience with drawing or painting as a prerequisite - i.e., an introduction to drawing or painting course.
Base Tuition: $490 + Model Fee: $17 + Material Fee: $10 = $517 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Working on paper “in between” drawing and painting
- Expressive mark making with pens and brushes, using water soluble materials
- Experimenting with mixed media techniques
- Different properties and capabilities of water based media
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.